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On the morning of July 30, 2012, an accountant named Michel Gauvreau arrived at the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, housed in a huge red brick warehouse on the side of the Trans-Canadian…

Local flooding in North Carolina.    Photographer: Wikimedia Commons The article originally appeared on OnEarth.As you might have heard, my home state of North Carolina is trying to

JUNKO KITAHAMA’S FACE is pale blue, her mouth agape, her head craned back like a dead bird’s. Through her swim mask, her eyes are wide and unblinking, staring at the sun. She isn’t…

Dan Minicucci for ESPN.com Anthony Montefusco throwing a gyroball? From: Hruby, Patrick To: Assignment Editor, E-ticket Subject: RE: Gyroball ClinicYou're lucky to have me. Know that? The things I…

Thanks to a $374,000 taxpayer-funded grant, we now know that inhaling lemon and lavender scents doesn't do a lot for our ability to heal a wound. With $666,000 in federal research money, scientists…

A second SEAL stepped into the room and trained the infrared laser of his M4 on bin Laden’s chest. The Al Qaeda chief, who was wearing a tan shalwar kameez and a prayer cap on his head, froze; he was unarmed. “There was never any question of detaining or capturing him—it wasn’t a split-second decision. No one wanted detainees,” the special-operations officer told me. (The Administration maintains that had bin Laden immediately surrendered he could have been taken alive.) Nine years, seven months, and twenty days after September 11th, an American was a trigger pull from ending bin Laden’s life. #Sept11

Collage by Jo Lynn…

With labor trouble threatening the seasons of two of our four major sports, a pair of red-blooded Americans look overseas to fill the potential gap.

Kill brass: Thats the term for the spent cartridge of a snipers bullet. Russ Crane, seen here at a hotel in Egypt, where his unit was training, is a military sniper who has served in Afghanistan and…